I'm listening to a @dosgameclub podcast episode on Indiana Jones, and I remembered I have bought some LucasArts games on Steam... I had Loom, and I had Indiana Jones & TFOA... Yay! But.. Frick! It doesn't play anymore on my new macOS. The 32 bit support was dropped at one point. I wonder if there's any plans of wrapping these in some sort of a virtual machine to make them run on newer Macs? I know I could install a virtual machine but I really can't be bothered. #retrogaming
@prettyhuman Actually, the executables don't matter, the game files are the same across all platforms. I can check later if I have these games and I can get back to you how to extract the files if needed
@thanius@dosgameclub Tried this. Neither Dreamm or ScummVM see the Loom or Indy game I install from Steam. I'd need to download the original Windows executables from Steam and give those to these VM's, but all Steam lets me download are the macOS versions.If Steam would let me download the windows versions, that would solve this, but this is the whole point: I didn't want to jump through flaming hoops to do this. Thanks for suggestions everybody but I don't have the spoons for this right now.
@prettyhuman OK, apparently the Steam version is an update version at least for LOOM. So you need to point to the top folder (containing the LOOM.app file) and it should recognize the game as a Steam release (here's me checking it out on Linux:)